>Nadya -
>
>So far, I think you are giving me the best advice. The idea of searching withing the DBF (I would just open it with low-level file i/o and grab the header) and searching for .DBC might do the trick.
>
>Thanks!!
>
>Regards,
>AL

Alex,
Information is stored just after header record terminator and 263 bytes max at length. ie:

handle=fopen(lcTable)
=fseek(handle,8,0) && Header size store pos - header()
lnLowByte = asc(fread(handle,1))
lnHighByte = asc(fread(handle,1))*256
lnBackLinkstart = lnHighByte + lnLowByte - 263 && Backlink at header()-263
=fseek(handle,lnBackLinkstart,0)
lcBacklink = fread(handle,263)
=fclose(handle)

However I don't think you would need this. Use any command like select, copy to get a copy. Keep in mind once you get a free copy you lose longfieldnames. And free table is no different in this context.
Cetin